How I Increased my Traffic by 11259.7% in 3 Months in 10 Easy Steps
I was just playing around with Web analytics tools and happened to click on my Compete.com stats.
There I realized that my traffic increased by 11259.7% (no mistake here) compared to a year earlier.
In fact I did not believe the stats myself and then rechecked them thinking about my visitor numbers according to Google Analytics.
OMG! What the heck happened?
Recounting what else is on my onreact.com domain (not much) and then I came to the conclusion: It’s true! It’s really true! I’m incredibly successful if you look at the actual numbers.
My traffic really skyrocketed after I moved on from conventional SEO to SEO 2.0
Moreover the biggest part of the increase happened during the last three months. I had like 100 visitors per day on onreact.com a year ago.
Google traffic vs actual visitors
They came mainly from Google, the number hasn’t changed ever since. What happened then? How come there was such a huge upsurge in visitor numbers?
I want to share with you the secrets of how I did it. You can achieve it as well I’m convinced.
Here are the 10 steps I undertook, you might recognize some of them from this article here. In fact it was a self fulfilling prophecy.
- I started wearing a huge sombrero on my avatar image.
- I installed WordPress, a great WordPress theme and started blogging about SEO 2.0 – in English – I blogged almost daily since July.
- I used dofollow on my comment links and trackbacks so people started socializing with me as I didn’t treat them like spammers.
- I contributed to other blogs, not many, mainly Google Blogoscoped.
- I redefined SEO and rebranded it as SEO 2.0
- I compiled some best of and other lists other people liked
- I started contributing to social media, again not many, mainly a niche social site and a large content discovery/social networking service.
- I started socializing with other great bloggers in my niche, SEO and expanding it to other similar niches like web design blogs.
- I told the people that SEO is bullshit and gave ’em reasons why they should not read my blog, but people never listen!
- I told my readers the sometimes bitter truth, fought and flattered the right people, was incredibly funny all the time and never ever have shown a sign of being arrogant!
Indeed I am the greatest! 11259.7%! SEO 2.0 rocks! You have to tell my wife! She does not want me to waste my time with the blog. Why?
“Blogging is just a hobby” instead of doing real work for money! In fact I did it all just for fun, it really enriched my life.
Btw. Remember that I had almost no traffic from Google at SEO 2.0 as Google mostly ignored this blog for the first few months.
Last updated: August 16th, 2017.
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You’ve certainly came a long way mate, congrats on the success
I feel priviledged to have watched you along the way
I feel privledged to be “with”…cheers for the link. Your stats are looking impressive Tad, maybe I need a sombrero too!
Congratulations! It’s the extra 0.7% that really drives the point home :)
I’m still far from your success rate, but I’ve also had tremendous luck with participating in related blogs and getting to know my professional community. That means spending time every day reading blogs and commenting (and trying to be thoughtful and semi-intelligent in those comments). Of course, it hasn’t hurt to make some friends in the SEO community.
Well done! Hmm, I must copy your techniques. Although a sombrero would just be obvious copying–I need my own twist.
Maybe monkey ears. Everyone loves monkeys.
Awesome. Congrats. Must have been the sombrero that did it!! ;)
The sombrero was key.
Glen, thanks, if I were younger I would probably go to South Africa or rather New Zealand too ;-)
Simon, I’m with you, you’re with me!
How much are you girls and guys willing to pay for an original magic traffic driving sombrero, hehe?
Hi,
Awesome! Its a informative post.As i am new to this seo field,i feel really this post is very much useful and helpful for me.In future i am going to follow your words to increase my sites traffic.I shared this with my friends and colleagues also.Thanks for sharing the such a great information with us!
Great site you have. Stay with me for a while or better subscribe and soon you’re be a SEO 2.0 master.
>>>I used dofollow on my comment links and trackbacks so people started socializing with me as I didn’t treat them like spammers.
I think you have already abandoned that policy???
No I haven’t. For spam protection nofollow is used for 24h. So I have time to remove spam comments that have been overlooked by Akismet. After 24h the link counts. ;-)
Nice blog you have. Congrats on the PR5 but make sure you concentrate on important metrics like visitors, subscribers, bounce rate ad clicks… even Alexa.
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Your avatar is unique. It helps to recognize you from even in a busiest social site :)
Congratulations, those numbers are just ridiculous. Which single action would you say made the biggest difference?
Hey Damian, very good question. Adding a blog, then guest posting a very humurous post on an a-list blog which also announced a paradigm shift.
Also the huge StumbleUpon success.
Woah, that’s such a huge increase! I’m feeling very ambivalent about using social media. Has anyone had any success with it?
Your strategies to use humor and create interests by saying the opposite seem to work
Great ideas there. I think I’m going to do the same re DoFollow on my blog in the near future. It’s always nice to give something for free. Thanks for the ideas!!!!
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